The latest thing though is that the megachurches send out these evangelist priests who run an inquisition into your amounts tithed. These people then go around trying to co-opt the machinery of the state to redirect money to the megachurches.

“We should tax everyone to fund open source” they say

“Google should pay a percentage of their gross revenue to the Rust Software Foundation” they say

All this is because it’s enough for the bazaar to create but the author has correctly identified that the purpose of the megachurches is to receive tithes.

The Rust megachurch is one of the biggest proponents of this and its adherents are always trying to take our money by force because we won’t give it by will https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46048954

Rust delenda est.

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kiba 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Free and open source software provide a ton of value to businesses and consumers. It's right that tax dollars is used to fund what effectively is a public good so that we can all benefit from it even more.

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shiroiuma 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I can see a government requiring itself to provide some funding to open-source projects that it actually makes a lot of use of. But not just open-source in general; no one needs to get funding for some pet project that only that one person cares about and isn't very good anyway: putting some crappy chatGPT-generated code on GitHub should not qualify you for government funding.

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renewiltord 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There's always a cause and a church. There is an instrument for this: your donations can be tax deductible if you give to a 501c3 that exists for the public benefit. But that's not enough for you guys. Having seen the success of private equity dialysis clinics to redirect Medicare funding, you have decided that you want a piece of this government revenue pie. Enough of this greed.

Rust delenda est.

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Y_Y 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Alright Cato, but consider that other countries successfully spend their budgets on public goods like infrastructure and the arts.

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shimman 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Don't both, people like them hold society back. I suggest you go out and talk to your physical neighbors about taxing big tech, it has a huge amount of support. The only question is do you want a democratic administration to use said tax revenues to benefit the public or a republican administration to benefit a few private actors.

It's going to happen and I know what side I'd rather be on.

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renewiltord 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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queenkjuul an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Your country burned 4 million civilians to death in Korea and Vietnam.

I'll leave the monthly rate math to you there.

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lurk2 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is inane. There are other countries besides Germany that finance public works.

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Y_Y 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Normally I'd say read a history book, but it might be quicker to read a newspaper.

	▲	renewiltord 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Doctor, heal thyself. Rust delenda est.